FC4 Test Prep

Jim Cornette fct-cornette at insight.rr.com
Mon Mar 14 23:56:53 UTC 2005


David Cary Hart wrote:
> I'm thinking about installing FC4T1 on my laptop on separate partitions.
> This will then be a triple-boot. Are there any issues with logical (in
> contrast to primary) partitions? Is there anything else I need to know
> related to this?

In my trials, defining primary partitions works best. I do havean 
installation where the boot and the / (for that test installation) is in 
an extended partion. The installation seems to work alright, though I 
need to boot loader in the MBR for this partitcular installation.

/dev/hdb3 contains /dev/hdb5 as /boot and /dev/hdb6 as / (grub loader in 
MBR)

The installation on /dev/hda2 is /boot hda3 is /home and hda4 is / for 
this installation. (grub is installed in hda2 and is chainloaded from an 
entry for the grub installed in MBR)

The /dev/hdb1 it is boot for this installation, grub is installed in 
hdb1. There is an entry in the MBR installation to chainload this setup 
also. /dev/hdb2 is / and /home is contained within this setup.

This is a mess, but each installation takes care of its own grub entries 
and you don't have to manually edit the settings.
When you install your system, choose the advanced bootloader settings 
and you can choose where to install grub and add additional entries for 
your configuration.

Jim


    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1         659     5293386    b  W95 FAT32
/dev/hda2             660         672      104422+  83  Linux
/dev/hda3             673        3222    20482875   83  Linux
/dev/hda4            3223        4865    13197397+  83  Linux

Disk /dev/hdb: 30.7 GB, 30736613376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3736 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
/dev/hdb2              14        2537    20274030   83  Linux
/dev/hdb3            2538        3460     7413997+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdb4            3461        3736     2216970   82  Linux swap
/dev/hdb5            2538        2550      104391   83  Linux
/dev/hdb6            2551        3460     7309543+  83  Linux




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